The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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CONGRESS.

CONGRESSs
IN the Senate on the 18th an unusual
number Of resolutions calling upon various de-
partments FOR Information were offered. The
Senate took up Senator Cameron's bill 10 in
crease the naval establishment. At the expira-
ton Of the morning hour the bill was laid aside
and the Eads Tehuantepec bill taken up and
debate continued until executive session
The House got into somewhat of tangle upon
interpreting the rules, a solution Of which the
Speaker took under consideration. Mr. Lswler
offered a resolution calling upon the Secretary
of State for construction Of the treaty Of 1914
with Great Britain as to the right Of the United
States to maintain a navy on the lakes. Among
the bills introduced was one by Mr.. Little, Of
Ohio, for the election Of Senators by the peo-
pie District of Columbia matters were then
considered until adjournment
In the Senate on the 18th the House
amendments to the Trade Dollar bill were nom
concurred in. The House bill dividing Missouri
into two judicial districts and dividing the dis
tricts into divisions, was reported by Senator
Vest, with amendments and passed. The bill
to increase the naval establishment was then
taken up and debated until two o'clock, when
the Eads Tehuantepec bill came mp as unfinished
business and was considered until adjournment.
After disposing Of the business on the
Speakers table in the House, the resolution
discharging the Committee of the Whole from
further consideration of the Senate bill grant
ing pension to Mrs. Logan and making the
bill an immediate special order came up,
against which a point of order was pending at
the adjournment. Under the decision OF the
Speaker the matter went to the Committee on
Rules. After committees reported the House
further considered the Consular and Diplomatic
Appropriation bill, but adjourned before reach
ing final action.
IN the Senate on the 10th the credentials
of David s. Turpie as Senator from Indiana
were presented and on motion OF Mr.. Hoar re-
ferred to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections Consideration of the bill to increase
the navy was then resumed and after several
amendments the bill passed. The bill for an
increase of the naval establishment was then
further debated but no action reached. Mr..
Blair then offered resolutions upon the death
of the late Senator Pike, eulogies were deliv-
cred and the Senate adjourned. -. The House
on assembling insisted upon its amend
ments to the Senate Trade Dollar bill
and agreed to the conference requested by
the Senate. Mr.. Belmont, from the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs reported back the
Senate Retaliatory bill with the committees S
substitute. Mr.. Cobb, from the Conference
Committee on the Northern Pacific Forfeiture
bill, reported disagreement. He said that
the Senate bill proposed the forfeiture OF but
3,5O0,0OO acres of mountainous land west of the
worked the forfeiture Of all the lands west of
Bismarck, amounting to 100000 acres. The
report was agreed to and a new committee ap-
pointed. At two o'clock, in pursuance of pre-
vious order, public business was discontinued,
and Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, called up the Sen
ate resolutions expressive of respect to the
memory of the late John A Logan. Addresses
were delivered and the House adjourned.
AFTER disposing of routine business the
Senate on the 18th resumed consideration of
Mr. Hale's bill to provide for the increase of the
naval establishment. The bill finally passed.
1t provides for heavily armored vessels and gun
boats for coast defenses, and appropriates s15,
400 900. After passing several minor bills the Sen
ate took up for further consideration the Eads
Tehuantepec bill. which was amended and final
ly passed. Mr. Vest submitted the conference
report upon the bill dividing the State of Mis-
souri, into two judicial districts, which was
agreed to. Adjourned. The House by
SO yeays to 160 nays refused to pass
the bill appropriating $1,000 to purchase
seed for the drouth-stricken portions Of Texas
over the Presidents veto. The conference re-
port upon the Anti-Mormon bill was after some
debate, agreed to. After some parliamentary
sparring the House went into Committee of the
Whole upon the Consular and Diplomatic bill.
1t was amended, reported to the House and
passed. The conference report on the Sundry
Civil Dill was then received, pending the con-
sideration of which the House adjourned.
AFTER the disposition of routine business
in the Senate on the 18th the conference report
on the Utah Polygamy bill was presented in the
shape of substitute for both Senate and House
bills and after long debate the report was
agreed to by a vote of Sc to 13. The bill now
goes to the President. The Senate then took
up the River and Harbor BILL and pending con-
sideration adjourned. -. In the House a lively
tilt took place between Mr.. Ranney,
Of Massachusetts, and Mr.. Tarseney, of
Michigan, upon the conference report in
the bill for holding terms of court
at Bay City, Mich, but the report was agreed
to. The Senate amendments to the Invalid
Pension bill were non-concurred in. After sus
tanning the veto upon private pension bill the
House went into Committee of the Whole for
the further consideration of the Senate amend
ments to the Sundry Civil bill and disposed of
156 of the 260 amendments, when the commit
tee rose and the House took recess until even
ing when it passed twenty-three pension bills